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Securely deleting files from ext4 filesystemsSecurely deleting files from ext4 filesystemsPosted Oct 16, 2011 3:04 UTC (Sun) by giraffedata (subscriber, #1954)In reply to: Securely deleting files from ext4 filesystems by njs Parent article: Securely deleting files from ext4 filesystems
I don't think I'd cite that paper. It is poorly written, from the disorganized presentation of thoughts to the poor grammar (I lost count of the sentences with no verb). That makes it hard to detect the theoretical basis for prior data not being recoverable. Maybe that doesn't matter because the paper also reports empirical results, with numerical conclusions of the probability of recovering prior data that are insignificantly small. However, amazingly, the paper does not describe the method. I.e. it does not say how the investigators attempted to recover the data. (Maybe that is embedded in the ungrammatical and to me unintelligible sentence, "both drive skew and the bit was read."). One thing the paper sort of hints at is the reason I believe the conclusion -- that you can't recover prior data from an overwritten disk -- is true. In the quest for greater density of current data, disk drive engineers have squeezed out whatever redundancy used to allow a drive to store both the current data and some of the prior data.
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